System of filtration and water-supply.



No. 861,028. PATENTED JULY Z3, 1907.

F. GROTE.

SYSTEM 0F FILTRATION AND WATER SUPPLY.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 20,1907.

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P. GROTE.

SYSTEM OFSFILTRATION AND WATER SUPPLY.

APPLIUATION FILED MAY 20.1907.

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flomey To all whom 'it vmay concern:

IFERDINAND GROTE, OF EVANSVILLE, INDIANA.

SYSTEISI OF FILTRATION AND WATER-SUPPLY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 23, 1907.

Application filed May 20, 1907. Serial No. 374,652.

Be it known that I, FERDINAND of Vanderburg and State of Indiana, have invented certain new vand useful Improvements in a System of Filtration and Water-Supply, ofA which the following is a specification. A

My invention relates toa system of water filtration and supply, and consists in the construction, arrangement, and operation of the several parts, which will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

v This vinvention is an improvement'on the Water supply Aand filtering' system described and claimed in United States Letters Patent granted to .Lloyd E. Smith, April 29th, 1902, Serial Number- $99,032.

One object of this invention is to provide means by which the said invention may be better adapted to filtering water and supplying it as desired. I

Another object of this invention is to provide the delivery pipe with universal joints, s0 that it may be' so laid as to follow the bed o thestrcam in which it is used, to turn to the right or left-to avoid obstacles, or to dip into or risc out of sloughs'or holes in the bed of the stream as circumstances may require.

A further object 0f this invention is to provide the branch or intake strainer pipes, which are united to the main delivery pipe, with Vuniversal joints, so that they may be-set at any` angle to the said delivery pipe required by the stream or other circumstances.

A still further object of this invention is to provide said delivery pipe with branch or intake 'strainer pipes, of such number as may be desired, which are so constructed that they may be lengthened or shortened by sectionsor in any suitable manner-to accommodate them to the sand bars as found in rivers or streams.

These objects I accomplish by the structures show in theaccompanying drawings forming al part of this application, and in which: l

Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view showingv the manner in which my system is arranged in the bed of a stream j and carried up and into a 'pumping station. Fig. v2 is a top plan view of the delivery pipe with brach or intake strainer pipes secured therein, and auniversal joint near one end thereof. Fig. 3 is a detail view of a section of the delivery pipe with the universal joint fully shown. Fig. 4 is a detail view of a section of a branch or intake strainer pipe with the strainer clearly shown. l Y

In the drawings (Fig. l), the delivery pipe A is shown leading from a pumping station or plant B located on the bank of a river or stream. This delivery pipil is provided with universal joints a to permit the same to be curved so as to descend in a proper way to the bod oi the stream and to be sunk beneath thel same where necessary. The branch strainer pipes Al are lo- GRo'rE, a citizen of l the United States, residingatEvansville, in the county cated at suitable distances along the delivery pipe, `as shown. The delivery pipe and the branch 'strainer pipes are preferably sunk beneath the bed of the stream,

as shown in Fig. 1.

In Fig. 2 a top plan view of the delivery pipe A is shown and a like view of the branch or intake strainer pipes A. These strainer pipes are shown at af, as arranged to be lerig'thened or shortened as the circumstances may require. They are also shown as provided with universal or flexible joints a. i

, `It has been found necessary to provide the branch' pipes of different lengths, or of more than one section,

owing to different widths which'may be found in the sand bars which may be found in rivers and streams. To meet thisnecessity provision is made, as shown, for longer ory shorter strainer pipes. Ithas also been found necessary to arrange the strainer. pipes at different angles to the delivery pipe because oi the differing shapes of the sand bars. On this account it has been found necessary to provide the strainer pipes with universal or flexible joints so as to meet this requirement. l i j As shown in Fig. 2, the strainer pipes or some of them may be secured to the delivery pipe at different angles, but these strainer pipes must be arranged on a substantially horizontal plane lwith the otherstrainer pipes.

This system of filtration and supply Vof water is embedded inthe sand at the bottom of rivers or streams to a suitable depth and the filtration is produced largely, if not entirely, by slow percolation through the strainsecured to 'the delivery pipes in any suitable manner but they are preferably secured in the manner shown in Fig. 2. The delivery pipe is cast in sections and each section has two or more hubs C provided with flanges c. Each strainer pipe is cast with correspondingflanges c.. By bringing these flanges together and` bolting them fast' a strong joint is formed which cannot be readily disarranged. All oi the joints in the'dolivery pipes are preferably made in the same way. Corresponding flanges of separate sections are brought together and bolted and thus the joints are made.

The joints in the strainer pipes are preferably all made in like manner. In like manner the universal joints are secured to the delivery and branch strainer pipes.

In Fig. 3 a universal jointsuch as used in the delivery and strainer pipes is shown in section. These joints are well known and hence do not need specific description.

In Fig. 4 a section oi a strainer such as I used in my strainer pipe is shown. i

In this system the water may be drawn off by pumps through the delivery pipe, or ii the delivery is, or may be directed to a lower elevation such, as a receiving reservoir, then the delivery may depend entirely upon Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In asystem of water filtration and supply, the combi nation with a delivery pipe provided with a universal joint and independent` s'trniners therein substantially as described. l l I 2. In a system of water filtration and supply, the combination with a delivery pipe having'universnl joints of a. series of strainer pipes, euch provided with a universal 10 joint substantially as described.

3. A system of water ltration and supply, comprising a delivery pipe provided with universal joints, strainer pipes.

secured to the delivery pipes having universalV joints, and means for drawing the water off through the delivery pipe,

f Asubstantially as described.

Witnesses: Y

BLANCHE L. CHADWELL, ALFRED M. HoUGHToN. 

